Re: [PATCH] contrib: remove gitview

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 29, 2016, 01:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20161229015918.jyiqd42z4htjibul@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20161228172837.24395-1-sbeller@google.com>

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 09:28:37AM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> gitview did not have meaningful contributions since 2007, which gives the
> impression it is either a mature or dead project.
> 
> In both cases we should not carry it in git.git as the README for contrib
> states we only want to carry experimental things to give early exposure.
> 
> Recently a security vulnerability was reported by Javantea, so the decision
> to either fix the issue or remove the code in question becomes a bit
> more urgent.
> 
> Reported-by: Javantea <jvoss@altsci.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> ---
>  contrib/gitview/gitview     | 1305 -------------------------------------------
>  contrib/gitview/gitview.txt |   57 --
>  2 files changed, 1362 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100755 contrib/gitview/gitview
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/gitview/gitview.txt

Thanks for assembling the patch. This seems reasonable to me, though I'd like to get an Ack from Aneesh if we can.

-Peff